Культурное наследие

Contestants were invited to paint their landscape 

An international group of scientists from Russia, Ecuador and Japan discovered fragments of ceramic vessels, which date from 4640-4460 BC and were created by an unknown civilization. 

An expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the first time discovered six stone sarcophagi during excavations at the Yuryev Monastery. 

A group of researchers from France and Italy found evidence that the results of the 1988 study, which allegedly established the actual date of manufacture of the Shroud of Turin, were erroneous. 

The researchers found a unique find on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the widow of famous writer Natalya Solzhenitsyn on her anniversary. Today, July 22, she turned 80 years old.

The public chamber of St. Petersburg have supported the installation of a monument to the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in the Park on Moskovsky prospect.

A collection was taken from the museums to the exhibition in Amsterdam in February 2014, a month before Crimea joined Russia.

The first edition of Alexander Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" went under the hammer at Shristie's auction in London for £ 467.3 thousand ($ 582 thousand at the current exchange rate).